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They can date their beds. Beds don't cheat. They are always there to keep the idols warm

"... has the highest suicide rate and lowest birth rate in the world"

Let it end. Women choosing a childfree lifestyle is the greenest flag ever

"... reveals you as either stupid, uncaring and hard hearted, or all three"

Human "life" is not precious, holy, sacred, unassailable, worthy of reverence, or of irreducible value. It's not stupid to regard profit more highly or favorably, than human "life"

I will not boycott my source of entertainment

I will agree that Korean agencies are in dire need of an accessible mental health care. Losing an idol, an investment, to suicide is not an economically efficient or profit maximizing outcome

Short answer: yes

Long answer: yes. Rife with platitudes, the story transports a man to other fictional universes, not because of his interest in the self-contained planes of existence co-existing with his own, but because of the woman who "confessed" to him

How do you know that they "chose" to "date" someone? They were most likely pressured by their fans, colleagues, families, etc to "date" or "marry"

"Freedom" is a remnant of a superstitious belief system. Autonomy and self-determination are constrained by human psychology and cognition, society and culture

My point was that if free will existed, if there were multiple options, and if idols chose to terminate their "lives," you would have to be indifferent to their choices. You're indifferent to their other "choices"

"Free" to obtrude their "dating lives" to public notice, idols would be as free to terminate their "lives"

It's "their body, their choice." But everyone wants to "pry" into their "private" affairs. One laments over their suicide, or actions intended to culminate in self-motivated termination, and another laments over their "dating lives"

All hail, Jae Wook, that shalt be Gay of Demonic Charm (Antique Bakery) hereafter

People: "mind your business!"

Also people: *spread rumors about celebrities*

Jae Wook?! Shooting rainbows out of his ass?! Saying gay rights?! In 2008?! How did Antique Bakery fly under my radar?! Our King was way ahead of his time!

Good points. The ML has not reached the stage of maturity at which he has the legal duty to effect an arrest. He could have elicited information from the suspects without beating them so as to lay the basis for a subsequent arrest or preliminary hearing

An arrest was to be conducted in the frame of the law. And he broke the law. How can he expect "criminals" to take responsibility, when he takes no responsibility for his misconduct?

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the two men have since come to the realization of the important part their cooperation plays in strategic situations like this, or they will be fighting the wrong fight

"Skunk sent the items he stole to me"
"Why are you trying to arrest Skunk?"
"Because he's a thief"

A thief takes the property of another by stealth without the latter's "permission." Skunk returns a substantial amount of stolen properties back to their rightful owners. He takes from the thieves and gives to the nation

Do the thieves own these properties? No

Does Skunk treat these properties as contraband currency? No

Is Skunk a thief? No

The male lead is madly in love with his artifacts, yes

"... a good drama doesn't need it, but a great drama does"

You pulled that out of, what? Thin air?

"... it would be yet another challenge"

He did step out of thriller in the past (Where Stars Land, Tomorrow With You, Fashion King, Architecture 101). What more do you want from him?

"... one of the most popular, widespread, lucrative genres - and for a reason"

Loose and ill-defined as it is, so-called "romance" indicates one of the most popular genre categories for one reason: it's cheap

People, mostly women, fill their tales with shipwrecks, separations, reunions, amnesia, second chances, stalkers, secret billionaires, etc, imagining themselves in a visceral regression to an infantile state where the self is provided for by an unusually masculine, nurturant fictive character. They receive a guilty "pleasure" from this misogyny that is in itself disagreeable

I ascribe to thriller and its more energetic exercise of imagination a superiority in quality

Thriller is a more imaginative staple across contemporary artforms; its anti-heroes, zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, etc, being subjects for curiosity that warrant the ratiocinative energy or attention a plot lavishes upon them. The last decade or so feels like one long Halloween night. The so-called "romance" genre does not provoke the same feeling

Lee Je Hoon carries his own weight in the thriller genre. If it ain't broke, don't "fix" it

A part of me didn't want Mo Tae Goo under arrest or behind bars

I second that, The King of Pigs will always be superior to "The Glory"

My pleasure!

The meals served as an accompaniment to the main gay course were soaked in sanitizing solutions and rainbow glitters. Their "straight" agenda is barely perceptible to the senses

If you're looking to expand your repertoire of Korean meals beyond "romance," the list is for you!

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